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Skokie is a american film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Wise released in USA on 17 november 1981 with Danny Kaye
Skokie (1981)
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Add to a movie listSkokie is a 1981 television movie directed by Herbert Wise, based on the real life NSPA Controversy of Skokie, Illinois, which involved the National Socialist Party of America.
The film premiered in the US on November 17, 1981. It was shown on the Israeli Educational television in the 1980s and on German television on March 3, 1997.
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The peace of Skokie, a comfortable Chicago suburb, is threatened when Frank Collin (George Dzundza), a politically astute neo-Nazi organizer, selects the place as the site of his next rally. Close to 40 percent of the town’s population is Jewish, and many of them are survivors of the Holocaust. They see the march as a warning and reminder of their days as concentration camp prisoners.Actors
Danny Kaye
(Max Feldman)
Eli Wallach
(Bert Silverman)
Carl Reiner
(Abbot Rosen)
George Dzundza
(Frank Collin)
Brian Dennehy
(Police Chief Arthur Buchanan)
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